ORCA Swim Practices Resume Monday, August 30th
Welcome back swimmers and
families! I hope you have enjoyed the past few weeks of break without swim
practices and have taken the opportunity to spend the time with your family
and friends. The staff at ORCA has been very busy over these past
couple of weeks preparing for the new season, and we are excited to get back
to regular practices and seeing everyone again.
Our swim clinic which has
been running since this past Monday has been a great success. There
are nearly 60 swimmers participating in the clinic, which has its last
session tonight. Based on the new swimmers from our summer recreational
swim program who have been participating in the swim clinic, we have over 19
new members who will be joining our team on Monday when we resume practices.
We are also expecting additional members to be joining who are not
participating in the pre-season clinic, so we should have quite an influx of
new swimmers. With anticipation of this growth and in order to keep
group sizes to a preference of about 20 swimmers or less, we have done some
slight restructuring.
Attached to this email is
a roster of year-round swim team members who were active at the end of the
summer. Included within this roster you will find the group code for
which group you have been assigned to for this season; BA (Bronze Alpha), BO
(Bronze Omega), SA (Silver Alpha), SO (Silver Omega), VAR (Varsity), GA
(Gold Alpha) or GO (Gold Omega).
Practice groups and times
have been redesigned as follows:
5:30 – 6:30 PM
Bronze Alpha Girls – Coach
Stephanie Wood
Bronze Alpha and Omega
Boys – Coach Mark Tierney
5:00 to 6:30 PM (1st
30 minutes will be dry-land so BRING TENNIS SHOES)
Silver Alpha – Coach Jess
Withey
Varsity – Coach
6:30 to 7:30 PM
Bronze Omega Girls – Coach
Stephanie Wood
6:30 to 8:00 PM
Silver Omega 12 and under
– Coach Jess Withey
Silver Omega 13 and over –
Coach
6:30 to 8:30 PM
Gold Alpha 12 and under –
Coach Jess Withey
Gold Alpha 13 and over –
Coach Mark Tierney
Gold Omega – Coach Mark
Tierney
There will be two
registration times on Monday, August 30th:
5:00 PM – for all swimmers
with practice start times of 5:00 or 5:30 PM
6:00 PM – for all swimmers
with practice start times of 6:30 PM
Returning swimmers will be
required to provide a check payable to cover the amount of their September
dues plus any outstanding balance
prior to being allowed to resume swim practices. Monthly group rates
are still as follows:
Bronze - $80
Silver and Varsity - $90
Gold - $100
Sibling discounts when paying monthly are: $15 off the second child; $30 off
the third child; $45 off the fourth child.
2011 SCS registration
forms for 2010 registered returning swimmers can be found in your folder at
the pool deck. You may pull your form from your folder and either turn
it in at registration on Monday with a check payable to SCS for $55
OR mail this in directly to
SCS on your own prior to December 31st 2010.
Any swimmers new to the year-round ORCA swim team will be required at registration to provide a completed ORCA Swim Team Application and Parent Contract (CLICK HERE), a check payable to ORCA for the amount of your September dues, an SCS registration form (provided at registration) and a check payable to SCS for $55. You will also need to show us either a birth certificate or government issued id such as a passport so we can verify the athlete’s birth date.
There will be a quick
parent/swimmer meeting at the end of each registration before the swimmers
get in the water for swim practice. All practices on Monday will end at
their normal time.
Should you have any
questions, please contact our administrator, Kim Herbel at
admin@orca-aquatics.com or you can reply to me, your Head Coach and CEO,
directly to this email.
We are excited and look
forward to seeing you all soon!
Mark Tierney
Head Coach, CEO
Orange Regional
Competitive Aquatics (ORCA)
714-648-2111
